Date:         Mon, 23 Dec 2002 20:18:41 -0600
Reply-To:     aldi@wubios.wustl.edu
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Aldi Kraja <aldi@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU>
Organization: WU
Subject:      Re: Reading SAS XPORT format library into R
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Hi,
I have done plenty of reading of data from SAS into Splus.
I use the Splus importData function with the specification type="SAS7"
(which corresponds to sas7bdat), there are many other options including
SAS transport file importing.
It works fine and on the fly. Another way around is to use a simple sas
program, with the following a few statements:

filename somename "/yourpath/myfilename.txt";
data _null_;
    file somename < you can use here options such as lrecl= etc.>;
put <write the names of your variables>;
run;

This way you created an ASCII file (myfilename.txt) which can be read
quite easy from Splus or R by using the function read.table. Do a
?importData (in Splus) and ?read.table (in Splus and R) and you will see
many other options.
HTH,
Aldi

Stephen Arthur wrote:
> Has anyone on the list done this successfully using
> either the R functions, 'read.xport' or 'read.ssd'?
>
> If you have, could you send me a dummy SAS data set
> and the R command you used to get this job done?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
>
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